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In memory of my mother First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Laura Scott 2019 The right of Laura Scott to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988; all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 1 78410 849 6 Book design by Andrew Latimer Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England.
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contents If I Could Write Like Tolstoy 3 How to Light a Cigarette 4 and Pierre? 5 Tolstoy’s Dog 6 Fragment 7 To the Trees 8 Mulberry Tree 10 Espalier 11 Something About Being a Plant Without Any Light 12 So Many Houses 13 and those Walls Came into Our Game 14 and the Sea Got into Your Hair 16 Breaking Things 17 Buster Keaton 18 Poems 19 Somewhere 20 The Lesson 21 Turner 23 Direction 25 Cove 26 How to Catch a God 28 Sisters 30 The Banker’s Daughter – Allan Ramsay 1759 31 Daughter 33 The Falling 35 Cows 37 Waiting for My Life to Begin 39 Pigeon 40 Fence 41 TheHalf-Loved 42 The Thorn and the Grass 43

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In memory of my mother

First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Laura Scott 2019 The right of Laura Scott to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988; all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 1 78410 849 6 Book design by Andrew Latimer Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon

The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England.

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